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Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,707 books — 6,837 voters
Dora by Lidia YuknavitchAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonThe Passion by Jeanette WintersonCall Me By Your Name by André AcimanThe Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,634 books — 2,078 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Street by Ann PetryInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisParadise by Toni Morrison
Best African American Books
902 books — 1,129 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Loony-Bin Trip by Kate MillettMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,401 voters

Janet Frame by Janet FrameThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonThe Loony-Bin Trip by Kate MillettA Shining Affliction by Annie G. RogersFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Memoirs by Women
2,926 books — 2,947 voters
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerLittle Scarlet by Walter MosleyIf He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
322 books — 287 voters

Black Swan Green by David MitchellPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Risk Pool by Richard RussoSomeday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter CameronAnimal's People by Indra Sinha
Coming of Age Stories
719 books — 546 voters
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis HermanMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Loony-Bin Trip by Kate MillettFaces in the Water by Janet FrameA Shining Affliction by Annie G. Rogers
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,121 books — 2,233 voters

Runaway by Alice MunroThe Liberated Bride by A.B. YehoshuaCarried Away by Alice MunroCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,223 books — 28,346 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonPersuasion by Jane AustenDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,201 books — 8,149 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 953 voters
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonVirginia Woolf by Hermione LeeSongs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,683 books — 6,144 voters

Middlemarch by George EliotThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Plague by Albert CamusInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best Philosophical Literature
1,147 books — 2,758 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,812 books — 49,738 voters

The Writing on the Wall by Lynne Sharon SchwartzA Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken KalfusExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Zero by Jess WalterQueen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
9/11 Related
245 books — 219 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelMarbles by Ellen ForneyAre You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
363 books — 422 voters

Impressions of an Indian Childhood by Zitkála-ŠáAlmanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon SilkoFlight by Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Native American Fiction
831 books — 634 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThree Guineas by Virginia WoolfThe Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. GilbertBeloved by Toni MorrisonParadise by Toni Morrison
Best Feminist Books
2,414 books — 3,414 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanParadise by Toni MorrisonWoman on the Edge of Time by Marge PiercyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Feminist Fiction
1,484 books — 2,643 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorYoung Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories by Nathaniel HawthorneEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorSelected Stories by Alice MunroUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,874 books — 2,030 voters

The Known World by Edward P. JonesCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Liberated Bride by A.B. YehoshuaOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodBlack Swan Green by David Mitchell
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,693 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPersuasion by Jane AustenMiddlemarch/Silas Marner/Amos Barton by George EliotVillette by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights, Agnès Grey & Villette by Emily Brontë
Must Read Classics
1,814 books — 4,571 voters

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon SilkoMy Brother by Jamaica KincaidFlight by Sherman AlexieOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
mourning & ghosts, life & death
380 books — 102 voters


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